Hail barbarians! ⚔️ Hither comes a new update with some important improvements, as well as some "quality of life" changes! New weapons and items have also been added, and the world of Gosen becomes just a bit deadlier with ne...

YES, SAVAGE: The Shard of Gosen has made it to Early Access! Check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/408060/SAVAGE_The_Shard_of_Gosen/   Hey everyone, Matt here, coming out of the grind cave for another update! Ap...

**IMPORTANT** GameMaker games and Windows 10 seem to be butting heads on certain systems. If your display goes black and then white (showing nothing and no response from Savage) when starting the game in Fullscreen, here's what seems t...

Hail, Loinclothed Heathens! An oldie but a goodie Let's get some bad news out of the way RIGHT NOW, shall we? It is becoming crushingly apparent that I won't get to a 100% finished Savage powerhouse of a game by the end of this yea...

Horizontal thrusts? Up thrusts? DOWN thrusts?! I've got you covered, Barbarian Horde! The last few months I've been grinding away at the one last juicy feature I felt was necessary to make Savage really shine: Directional combat! I mea...

Yes, new build! But we'll get to that in a second - - I've been down in a development hole working like a demon to get this game polished, feeling great, and worth your time to play. I'm finally coming up for air to show you all the sh...

Merry (post) Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year! You've got one more present to open before the year's over: 2016 Pre-launch Trailer!  The credit for direction, cinematography and visual FX goes to the insanely talente...

Hail, Barbarian Horde! Sorry this update has been a long time coming -- October turned out to be unusually busy and I had a number of large game-related issues I wanted to tackle before delivering you all an update. But rest assured, ...

"... It's better to burn out than to fade away!"  Sorry -- I've been listening to too much (is that even possible?) of the Highlander soundtrack while working. On a completely unrelated note, how about a project update?! Talk! ...

Happy Sunday! This week sees quite a few fixes to issues plaguing the alpha demo! Let's talk about a couple of the biggest and most obnoxious ones: Alt+Tabbing This... this has been the bane of my existence for quite a while -- BUT, t...

Good morning (or whenever)! Save System Just jumping right into it -- this update sees the completion of the game's save system! YAAY! This was one infuriatingly complicated task, I don't mind saying. To give you a rough estimate of...

Hey there! You'll have to forgive me if this is a somewhat short update - I've been up for about 24 hours at this point, but it's been worth it! The shiny new alpha demo is up and ready for you to break! New Playable Alpha Demo You ...

Greetings!   Last week I talked about fixing bugs and tidying up issues in preparation for releasing a playable build that includes the first few levels and areas of the game. The battle continues this week -- here's a list o...

Happy Sunday! This update sees a general lack of shiny new visuals to show off, but there's plenty of messing around going on under the hood. The battle to get the current content up to a release worthy standard for a playable build...

Hail, Barbarian Horde! I've got a handful of things to show you and discuss, including an upcoming playable developer build (more on that below!) for the backers to try out. Continuing to Solve the Platformer Problem I've talked before...

Hi everyone! My name is Matt and I've been developing Savage: The Shard of Gosen for the past few years. I really dig the blog system here and it seems like a fun way to introduce my devblog, while offering any insight and useful infor...